Literature
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The Wood of the Dead by Algernon Blackwood
One summer, in my wanderings with a knapsack, I was at luncheon in the room of a wayside inn in…
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With Intent to Steal by Algernon Blackwood
To sleep in a lonely barn when the best bedrooms in the house were at our disposal, seemed, to say…
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The Bridal March by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The Bridal March (Brude-Slaatten) was written in Christiania in 1872. It was originally published in the second volume of the…
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The Father by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnson uses just over one thousand words to spin this powerful morality tale about a wealthy man’s spiritual journey at…
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The Railroad and the Churchyard by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Translated by Carl LarsenI. CANUTE AAKRE belonged to an ancient family of the parish, where it had always been distinguished…
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Nils Finn by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Nils Finn is from HALTE HULDA, translated from Norwegian in the original meters by Arthur Hubbell Palmer, in Poems and…
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The Day of Sunshine by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
A Day of Sunshine is from ARNE, translated from Norwegian in the original meters by Arthur Hubbell Palmer, in Poems…
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The Hare and the Fox by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The Hare and the Fox is from SYNNOVE SOLBAKKEN, translated from Norwegian in the original meters by Arthur Hubbell Palmer,…
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A Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce
If you had seen little Jo standing at the street corner in the rain, you would hardly have admired him.…
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A Baffled Ambuscade by Ambrose Bierce
Connecting Readyville and Woodbury was a good, hard turnpike nine or ten miles long. Readyville was an outpost of the…
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